Name: Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History (Oxford Landmark Science) (en Inglés)
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Author: Crawford, Dorothy H.
ISBN: 9780198815440

portada Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History (Oxford Landmark Science) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Dorothy H. Crawford

Editorial

Oxford University Press, USA

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.3 x 12.7 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9780198815440

Categorías

Historia de la medicina
Enfermedades infectocontagiosas
Historia general y del mundo

Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History (Oxford Landmark Science) (en Inglés)

Dorothy H. Crawford (Autor) · Oxford University Press, USA · Tapa Blanda

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Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other. Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, she takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics, and identifying key changes in the way humans have lived - such as our move from hunter-gatherer to farmer to city-dweller -- which made us vulnerable to microbe attack. Showing how we live our lives today -- with increasing crowding and air travel -- puts us once again at risk, Crawford asks whether we might ever conquer microbes completely, or whether we need to take a more microbe-centric view of the world. Among the possible answers, one thing becomes clear: that for generations to come, our deadly companions will continue to shape human history. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.